{"id":241,"date":"2015-01-06T22:19:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T03:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2015-01-19T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T15:45:14","slug":"fujifilm-x100t-setup-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/fujifilm-x100t-setup-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Fujifilm X100T Setup Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you&#8217;re shooting landscapes, family portraits, little kittens, or Street Photography you can set the X100T once and there are enough customized buttons you won&#8217;t dig too far into the menu ever again.\u00a0 The settings below are my own personal settings with Street Photography as my primary focus but like I said, these settings work great for whatever type of photography you&#8217;re heart desires.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"X100T Review\" href=\"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/street-photography-camera-review-fujifilm-x100t\/\">The Fujilim X100T Review Can Be Seen Here (click this link)<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"x100t extensive testing teaser\" href=\"http:\/\/photolisticlife.com\/2015\/01\/09\/fujifilm-x100t-extensive-testing-teaser\/\">Check Out The X100T Extensive Testing Teaser (click this link)<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"sc-columns third clearfix\">\n<div class=\"col\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=decisiveshot-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00NF6ZHNG&amp;asins=B00NF6ZHNG&amp;linkId=WLJW7MUF6KEKAJWH&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When you first power the camera up you&#8217;ll be taken through picking your language and then setting the time.\u00a0 That&#8217;s about as much help as you&#8217;ll get from the camera, after that it&#8217;s up to you.\u00a0 The next thing I adjusted were my ISO settings, probably because it was the first thing that popped up on the menu.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">B<\/span>attery\/Energy Saving<\/h3>\n<p>The battery life of the X100T is about the same as the X100s and that&#8217;s not awesome.\u00a0 When I bought my X100s I also bought an extra battery to go with it&#8230;\u00a0 That was not enough.\u00a0 When purchasing the X100T I bought another extra battery for a total of 4 batteries (for those of you keeping count).\u00a0 I think three would be enough to get you through your day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*If you use the LCD for Live View or reviewing each shot (chimping) you may need the fourth battery, this obviously uses more energy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*You can also adjust the power mode in the settings to conserve energy.\u00a0 High performance improves focus speed but uses a little more battery.\u00a0 In the same settings menu below you can adjust the power save mode for the optical view finder and the amount of time the camera waits for automatically turning off when not in use.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Setup Menu 2 (the one with the wrench) &#8211; Power Management &#8211; High Performance On or Off<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>*If you&#8217;re shooting Street Photography or anything that you may need to react quickly too you&#8217;ll want to keep your finger on the shutter button and periodically wake the camera to keep it on its toes.\u00a0 If it goes to sleep it takes a couple of seconds to fire up before it&#8217;s ready to snap a pic.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I<\/span>SO<\/h3>\n<p>I like automatic ISO for the Fuji X100T, the camera isn&#8217;t my primary camera (the Nikon Df is) so I&#8217;m not worried about diddling with the ISO when the camera can manage just fine.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Menu &#8211; 1 &#8211; ISO &#8211; Auto1 (then Auto 2, Auto 3).<\/h4>\n<p>My set up for the three auto ISO options were as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Auto 1 (Bright Day\/No Shadows) &#8211; 200 &#8211; 1600 ISO with a minimum shutter speed of 1\/60<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Auto 2 (Daytime\/Shadow\/City) &#8211; 200 &#8211; 3200 ISO with a minimum shutter speed of 1\/100<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Auto 3 (Early Day\/Evening\/City) &#8211; 200 &#8211; 6400 ISO with a minimum shutter speed of 1\/100<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I<\/span>mage Size\/Aspect Ratio<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The manual that came with the X100T was about as helpful as you&#8217;d expect, nowhere in there does it explain the L,M,S, or the numbers across from the aspect ratios.\u00a0 Nor does it talk to you about aspect ratios and which is best for photography.\u00a0 Oddly, a quick Google machine search later you&#8217;d still be left wondering which settings are the best.\u00a0 So which aspect ratio and image size are best for the X100T?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, I&#8217;m going to assume you want the highest quality images the X100T is capable of outputting.\u00a0 Next, I&#8217;m going to assume you know your way around some sort of post processing program like Lightroom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>JPEG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Menu 1 &#8211; Image Size &#8211; L3:2 (L means large)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Next: Menu 1 &#8211; Quality &#8211; F (I&#8217;m fairly sure F means fine, it&#8217;s the best quality)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RAW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You can skip Image Size for this and go straight to Image Quality<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Menu 1 &#8211; Image Quality &#8211; RAW<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RAW + JPEG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is if you want to capture both a RAW image file and a JPEG at the same time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>1.) Choose your JPEG format and size as I showed you above.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>2.) Menu 1 &#8211; Image Quality &#8211; Fine + RAW (This will give you the best JPEG image and a RAW file)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">D<\/span>ynamic Range Setting<\/h3>\n<p>I left this at 100% since I shoot primarily in RAW.\u00a0 If you shoot in JPEG you could put it on auto.\u00a0 What this does is if you are in a setting where there is a wide dynamic range the camera will underexposed the image and apply a custom tone curve to try to increase the dynamic range.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">F<\/span>ocus Area<\/h3>\n<p>If you want to adjust your focus area just move one of the directional buttons located around the OK\/MENU button on the right side of the LCD on the back of the camera.\u00a0 While moving the focus area you can adjust the size of the focus area by rotating the knob above the directional pad with your thumb.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>*The smaller you make the focus area the slower the camera will focus.\u00a0 I recommend the largest setting for Street Photography (or manual focus) and low light situations.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">S<\/span>ilence The Camera<\/h3>\n<p>The X100T is capable of firing with virtually no sound&#8230;\u00a0 it&#8217;s so quiet that you could take a photograph inches from your subject&#8217;s head and they would be none the wiser.\u00a0 I like to turn all of the sounds off on my camera to keep it discreet.\u00a0 Here is how:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Set Up Menu 1 (with the wrench) &#8211; Silent Mode &#8211; On<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Set Up Menu 2 &#8211; Sound Set-Up &#8211; Operation Vol. &#8211; Off\/Shutter Volume Off<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">L<\/span>CD Settings<\/h3>\n<p>The camera ships with the Live View enabled to where you can use the viewfinder by simply putting your eye up to the viewfinder.\u00a0 The sensor that detects when your eye is close to the viewfinder and the LCD screen take up extra battery, I turn these off.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quick and easy to turn them back on if needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Turn LCD On\/Off<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Hit the View Mode button (top right of the LCD screen) once to turn off the LCD screen, hit it a second time to turn on just the LCD screen, a third time turns the viewfinder only back on, the fourth time turns the eye sensor back on (how it originally shipped).\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>*I prefer viewfinder only to preserve battery.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Adjust LCD Brightness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Set-Up Menu 2 &#8211; Screen Set-Up &#8211; EVF Brightness &#8211; (Adjust up + for brighter)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Display Image After Each Shot<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Set-Up Menu 2 &#8211; Screen Set-Up &#8211; Image Disp. &#8211; On<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>*Again, I recommend off to preserve battery.\u00a0 You can always hit the preview button (second button down on the right side of the LCD screen) to review images.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0V<\/span>iewfinder Adjustments<\/h3>\n<p>The viewfinder on the X100T is one of the pretty impressive, you can switch between optical, electronic, and hybrid views in the viewfinder.\u00a0 You can adjust the diopter the same as on any other camera, there is a little adjustment wheel right next to the viewfinder.<\/p>\n<p>The lever on the front of the camera can quickly switch the viewfinder between the different available settings.\u00a0 The lever is located on the front, top of the camera right below the shutter speed wheel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Pulling the lever to the right switches between the electronic viewfinder and the optical viewfinder.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Pushing the lever to the left will turn on the optical viewfinder hybrid (a small square shows up on the right zoomed in on your focus area to assist you with focusing). \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Power Saving<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">OVF Power save mode (when on) turns off the cameras sensor while using the optical viewfinder.\u00a0 This saves power but slows down the auto-focus of the camera.\u00a0 <strong>I recommend leaving this off<\/strong> (the way the camera comes).\u00a0 If you choose to turn it on this is how:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Set-Up Menu (with the wrench) &#8211; Power Management &#8211; OVF Power Save Mode &#8211; On<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Focus Scale Units<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is how you switch between focus distance, feet and meters, below the viewfinder or LCD.\u00a0 I change mine to feet because I see in feet not meters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Set-Up Menu 2 (with the wrench) &#8211; Screen Set-Up &#8211; Focus Scale Units &#8211; FT<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Auto-Rotate PB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is how the image will display on your LCD when you shoot in portrait mode&#8230;\u00a0 I leave this off, I like the image to fill the entire LCD Screen and it&#8217;s just as easy to turn my camera if I choose to review the image on the back (I don&#8217;t, I like to review on the computer).\u00a0 Default is on so if you like that then you don&#8217;t need to do a thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Set-Up Menu 2 (with the wrench) &#8211; Screen Set-Up &#8211; Autorotate PB &#8211; Off<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">C<\/span>ustomize Buttons<\/h3>\n<p>You can now customize seven buttons&#8230;\u00a0 Four of the buttons, the directional pad around the OK\/MENU button, I leave for selecting the focus point manually so I only really have 3 buttons to customize.\u00a0 Here is how I set mine up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Fn1 Button (to the right of the shutter button)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Shooting Menu 3 &#8211; Function (Fn) Setting &#8211; Fn1 &#8211; ISO<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>*I use ISO selection here, you can choose whatever you like quick access to.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Fn6 Button (second from the bottom on the left of the LCD Screen)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Access it the same way as you did the Fn1 Button<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*It comes set to Photometery, I leave this alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Fn7 Button\u00a0 (bottom button on the left side of the LCD Screen)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Same as the other two<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*It comes set to WiFi, I don&#8217;t use this so I changed mine to ND Filter because I like to shoot with a wide aperture in bright light.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">F<\/span>ocus Mode<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AF Mode<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I use Area mode where you can use the directional buttons, located around the OK\/MENU button, to select where you focus.\u00a0 I like to have maximum control with the X100T (and really all of my cameras).\u00a0 Multi selection will choose where your camera focuses automatically, it can be wrong and unless you want to keep half pressing the shutter button until it gets it correct I&#8217;d stick with Area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Shooting Menu 1 &#8211; Autofocus Setting &#8211; AF Mode &#8211; Area<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"sc-separator type-thin\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That&#8217;s really all I can remember for now, the camera is super simple to set up.\u00a0 You could really switch it to RAW and start shooting with it right out of the box.\u00a0 If you have a question or want to know how something else works or is adjusted leave me a comment below.\u00a0 I hope you find this helpful.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-columns third clearfix\">\n<div class=\"col\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=decisiveshot-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00NF6ZGY6&amp;asins=B00NF6ZGY6&amp;linkId=DXLCZJRRUWAH2GSM&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you&#8217;re shooting landscapes, family portraits, little kittens, or Street Photography you can set the X100T once and there are enough customized buttons you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[92,94,74,95,96,93],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/01.jpg?fit=1506%2C1130&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5xbS3-3T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}